Jack Riggs

{{short description|American politician and physician from Idaho}}

{{Infobox officeholder

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| name = Jack Riggs

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| order = 38th

| office = Lieutenant Governor of Idaho

| term_start = January 30, 2001

| term_end = January 6, 2003

| governor = Dirk Kempthorne

| predecessor = Butch Otter

| successor = Jim Risch

| state_senate1 = Idaho

| district1 = 4th

| term_start1 = December 1, 1996

| term_end1 = December 1, 2000

| predecessor1 = Mary Lou Reed

| successor1 = Kathleen Sims

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1954}}

| birth_place = Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, U.S.

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| party = Republican

| children = Peter Riggs

| education = University of Idaho (BS), University of Washington (MD)

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Jack Timothy Riggs (born 1954) is an American physician, businessman, and politician from Idaho who served as the 38th lieutenant governor of Idaho from 2001 to 2003.

Career

Riggs worked as a physician in Coeur d'Alene. He has owned and operated his own real estate company, JaxGroup & JaxLand Real Estate, since 2007.

Riggs also worked as CEO of Pita Pit USA, Inc. from 2005, when it acquired the Pita Pit system (franchise) in the U.S., until 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2005/may/11/riggs-opens-fast-food-venture/|title=Riggs opens fast food venture|last=|first=|date=|website=The Spokesman-Review|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-12-19}}

= Idaho Senate =

Riggs was unopposed in the Republican primary.{{Cite web|title=1996 Idaho Primary Results|url=https://sos.idaho.gov/elect/results/1996/Primary/primindx.htm|access-date=2021-09-22|website=sos.idaho.gov}} Riggs defeated Democratic incumbent Mary Lou Reed and Ust candidate Charles Eberle with 51% of the vote in the general election.{{Cite web|title=1996 General Election Results|url=https://sos.idaho.gov/elect/results/1996/general/rsltgn96.htm|access-date=2021-09-22|website=sos.idaho.gov}} He was re-elected in 1998 and 2000.{{Cite web|title=1998 General Election Results|url=https://sos.idaho.gov/elect/results/1998/general/98gnrslt.htm|access-date=2021-09-22|website=sos.idaho.gov}}{{Cite web|title=2000 General Results legislative|url=https://sos.idaho.gov/elect/results/2000/General/tot_leg.htm|access-date=2021-09-22|website=sos.idaho.gov}}

= Lieutenant governor of Idaho =

He was appointed lieutenant governor by Governor Dirk Kempthorne in January 2001 to fill a vacancy left by the resignation of longtime Lieutenant Governor Butch Otter, who won a seat in the United States House of Representatives in the 2000 election.

Riggs ran for a full term in 2002 but was defeated by state senator Jim Risch in the Republican primary, ending his tenure as lieutenant governor.{{Cite web|title=2002 Primary Results statewide|url=https://sos.idaho.gov/elect/results/2002/Primary/tot_stwd.htm|access-date=2021-09-22|website=sos.idaho.gov}}

Personal life

His son, Peter Riggs, served in the Idaho Legislature.{{Cite web|title=Regan lashes out at Riggs family {{!}} The Spokesman-Review|url=https://www.spokesman.com/blogs/hbo/2016/may/19/regan-lashes-out-riggs-family/|access-date=2021-09-22|website=www.spokesman.com}}